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Track Listings
| 1. Airbag |
| 2. Paranoid Android |
| 3. Subterranean Homesick Alien |
| 4. Exit Music (For A Film) |
| 5. Let Down |
| 6. Karma Police |
| 7. Fitter Happier |
| 8. Electioneering |
| 9. Climbing Up The Walls |
| 10. No Surprises |
| 11. Lucky |
| 12. Tourist, The |
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Whilst one suspects some kind of pre-millennial hysteria prompted Q magazine's readers to vote OK Computer The Greatest Album Ever Made scarcely five months after its release, it certainly doesn't look stupid up there in the pantheon. Following the hot red rock attack of 1995's The Bends, OK Computer heads out into the cold deep space of prog-rock and comes back with stuff that makes mere pop earthlings like Stereophonics tremble. Whilst the eight-minute-long "Paranoid Android" comes across like "Bohemian Rhapsody" with a gun held to its head, and "Electioneering" is a little too like a kiddy-version of Blood And Chocolate-era Elvis Costello to be truly revelatory, the rest of OK Computer spans the sublime to the ridiculously sublime. Thom Yorke had been obsessed with Ennio Morricone during the recording of the album (in a haunted mansion, fact-fans), and it shows on the expansive space-dream of "Subterranean Homesick Alien" and the endlessly comforting closer "The Tourist". And if neither "No Surprises" (played on a toy guitar with Yorke and Ed O'Brien harmonising like a two-man Crowded House) nor "Lucky" (recorded in one day for the Bosnian aid album War Child--it reduced Yorke to tears the first time he heard it played back) make the hairs on your skin spit with electricity, then maybe you're with the Q reader who voted for Anita by Anita Dobson. --Caitlin Moran
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Une simple écoute de Ok Computer suffit à justifier les éloges qui ont déferlé sur Radiohead à la sortie de ce deuxième album. Le groupe signe une œuvre ambitieuse, magistrale et qui n'a pas fini d'influencer les nouveaux venus. Les Anglais tourmentés parviennent à concilier rock progressif, voire symphonique, et absence totale de boursouflure. "Paranoid Android" illustre bien ce tour de force. La chanson se déroule en mouvements, passe de la colère à la sobriété acoustique, soutenue par des chœurs fantomatiques, dominée par le timbre délicat mais puissant de Yorke, tapissée de riffs de guitares et de bruitages synthétiques. Même manipulation de climats pour "Exit Music (For A Film)" qui commence avec le seul chant écorché de Thom Yorke sur fond de guitare, puis culmine en une explosion maniaque avant de retomber dans la noirceur dépouillée du début. On sort de cet album le souffle coupé par tant d'intensité, à la fois soulagé que ce soit terminé et impatient d'y revenir. --Isabelle Chelley
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
One word - BRILLIANT!,
By sun "sun7799" (Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Ok Computer (Audio CD)
I know everyone has said this a million times already, but this album really was ahead of its time. I only just bought it, 10 years too late it seems becuase I can't beleive what I've been missing this entire time.I'm partially writing this review so that the person with the review below me, Vader, won't be the first review you see. It seems he had gone to every single radiohead album and given it a bad review, and with nothing much to back up his opinon. Sure, this album isn't for everyone and if he doesn't like it, fine but a smart, intuitive, musically inclined person can see that these guys have a knack for writing atmospheric and captiving songs. Another review said that all drugs should be pulled from the market and people should just listen to this album. He's right. This album takes you to another world and you'll find yourself wanting more. I can't wait to hear what else Radiohead has to offer.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars
I almost liked this CD until I read these reviews,
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This review is from: Ok Computer (Audio CD)
I actually liked some of the songs - the ones that kept the lead singer's pitiful whinings to a minimum - until I read the reviews here. I should have known better than to expect anything from this band, considering it was introduced to me by college kid wanna-be-unique-and-deep types. Those of you who are intelligent enough to question this drivel twice before you fork over your parents' hard-earned money, consider how 3 out of every 4 reviews here talk about "Feeling the music" and not listening to it. This is so popular because Radiohead appeals to all the juvenile feelings of isolation and confusion that are normal when kids are entering the world, and the fact that these so-called-artists haven't gotten over this horribly infantile complex speaks much about them personally, or their willingness to be artistically cheap, you can decide for yourself.The only relation this has to any Pink Floyd is their later crap, where they lost their creative drive and decided to sell CDs to college kids by whining about how mean the big evil world is. Face it kids, music goes in cycles of good and bad just like all culture and we're in a low point. Give up your desparate efforts to be part of some revolutionarily insightful movement and look to the '70s where the talent is. Coldplay is even worse, by the way.
5.0 out of 5 stars
The best of the best,
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This review is from: OK Computer (2CD/DVD Special Edition) (Audio CD)
This is an amazing album. If you like three cord music this might not be for you (not knocking that! Some of the best rock Band's in the world have used that formula). I was first given the Bends as a Christmas gift (their excellent record before this). I liked it but was not immediately blown away. That came with this album. "OK Computer" deserves to go up there with "Dark Side Of The Moon", "Sgt. Pepper" and "Fragile". In my opinion it was the last classic rock album made. Hopefully there will be more but as it stands this is the last classic. This album goes from heavy to the mellowest songs you have ever heard.I know Radiohead plays this down but along with Porcupine Tree Radiohead are the greatest Prog Band since the early 1980's. the music is not hard to listen to but you hear more with each listen. Songs like Karma Police or Paranoid Android would sound good done by anybody but Radiohead have a sound no other band has been able to copy (no matter how hard "Coldplay" tries). Peter Gabriel said they were the last important band of the 90's and I would not argue with him there (besides he's a genus). The only thing better then Radiohead on record is hearing them live. This record was the last one where all the songs were written around any sort of radio friendly song structure. After this the songs got loser and were more tonal then melodic. If you haven't heard Radiohead this or the Bends are the records to check out. The music can be challenging at times but worth the effort. If you find these records too crazy stop here. It only gets weirder after this. But if you like this record and want to go further down the rabbit hole check out Kid A. Trippy!!!
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